sustainable management of tropical rainforests

Question 1

Inter government agreements on hardwoods & species

Answer 1

FSC promotes sustainable management by approving timber from sustainable sources. suppliers are encouraged to buy wood with the FSC stamp. this is a form of environmental quality control

the international tropical timber agreement restricts the trade of hardwoods by only marking timber with a registration mark if it is from a sustainably managed forest

Question 2

Debt reduction by HICs

Answer 2

In 2010 for example USA signed an agreement to convert a Brazilian debt of £13.5 million into a fund to protect large areas of tropical rainforest. These swaps are all part of what is known more widely as debt reduction. .

Question 3

Conservation & Education by NGOs

Answer 3

• promote the conservation message largely through education programmes in schools
• Provide training for conservation workers
• Provide practical help to make programmes more sustainable
Buy up threatened areas and create nature reserves

Question 4

4. National Governments

Answer 4

• Creating protected areas or reserves
• Stopping the abuse of rainforst and other biomes by developers
• Making subjects such as ecology or environmental studies a compulsory part of the school curriculum
There are though a number of problems to this:
• Few governments are willing to do anything that might slow down the rate of economic development
• Governments seem unwilling to enforce and monitor laws aimed at protecting or conserving the rainforest
• There is a lot of corruption in the way rainforests are treated e.g. Illegal loggers and developers paying bribes

Question 5

ecotourism.

Answer 5

holidays that help the rainforest by contributing to habitat correction. if you have this resort it gives jobs to local people and allows them to replant all the time.